Iroquois
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Iroquois /ˈɪrəkwɔɪ, -kɔɪ/
▶noun (pl. same)
- 1 a member of a former confederacy of six American Indian peoples (Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora) who lived mainly in southern Ontario and Quebec and northern New York State.
- 2 any of the Iroquoian languages of these peoples.
– origin Fr., from an Algonquian lang.
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